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Drought may hit half world’s wheat at once

03 Oct 2019
Wheat field
Simultaneous droughts on several continents could wreak havoc. Image: By USDA (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
The planet’s daily bread could be at risk as the global thermometer creeps up and climates begin

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Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 years, for most of that time as science editor. He has been covering climate change since 1988
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